Re: ProDOS master

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On Jan 4, 1:33 pm, "Doug Mccomber"
<doug.mccom...@theville.vintagecomputing.net.remove-u4z-this> wrote:
>   To: David Schmidt
>   Re: Re: ProDOS master
>   By: David Schmidt to comp.sys.apple2 on Wed Jan 04 2012 10:51:03
>
>  > From Newsgroup: comp.sys.apple2
>  >
>  > On 1/4/2012 10:16 AM, Trash80 wrote:
>  > > Hi,
>  > >
>  > > I'm trying to set up a disk for use with 2QWK.  I need to patch it using q
>  > > in order to work with certain file names.  This isn't the issue I'm having
>  > > led me to a search for a ProDOS master disk image because according to the
>  > > docs I should be patching files suck as p8 and pro.fst.  I can't find a di
>  > > image or shk file that has those.
>  >
>  > Those aren't ProDOS master disk elements... those are GSOS artifacts
>  > that are used to support ProDOS.  So if you were running GSOS, or
>  > looking at a GSOS master disk (images/gs/os/gsos/System_6.01.zip) you'd
>  > see those files.  But they weren't ever part of a ProDOS 8 master disk.
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> That's explain why I couldn't find them!  Odd that I didn't see a reference to
> GSOS in the docs.
>
> Regards,
> Doug
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2QWK is a Prodos 8 application.  Prodos 1.9 and Prodos 2.03 are
available at that download site.  Cider Press will allow you to
decompress to a disk image.   Qfix will work with 2.03.   Unless you
prefer to work in GSOS which you will also have to update with Qfix.